Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word AFFRICATE

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Definitions of AFFRICATE

1. (phonetics) A sound produced using a combination of a plosive and a fricative.
2. (transitive) To produce (a plosive) as an affricate.

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Examples of Using AFFRICATE in a Sentence

• An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
• Contra: these words are rare and it is therefore more probable that *zd was absorbed by *dz (< *dj, *gj, *j); further, a change from the cluster /zd/ to the affricate /dz/ is typologically more likely than the other way around (which would violate the sonority hierarchy).
• The affricate series is strongly aspirated, and may be analysed phonemically as aspirated stops; in the related Korana they are.
• is used for a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, ġ for a voiced palato-alveolar affricate, and ż for a voiced alveolar sibilant.
• That may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified, and the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive.
• It is a fricative, rather than a fricative element of an affricate because the preceding plosive remains alveolar, rather than becoming alveolo-palatal, as in Dutch.
• This may be considered appropriate when the place of articulation needs to be specified and the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive.
• The ejective affricate in the name Gwichʼin is usually written with symbol , though the correct character for this use (with expected glyph and typographic properties) is.
• Dje is the sixth letter of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, used in Serbo-Croatian to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.
• For instance, q and Q represent different voiceless uvular consonants, the voiceless uvular affricate and the voiceless uvular plosive, respectively.
• Timbisha stops (including the affricate) and nasals are voiced and lenited between vowels, are voiced in nasal-stop clusters, and are lenited (but not voiced) following.
• The voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
• The Minto data did appear in a series of IJAL articles by Krauss in the mid to late 1960s, but it was some time before the existence of an additional Proto-Athabaskan affricate series became widely known.
• The voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
• Before plosive or affricate consonants this nasality becomes homorganic nasal of the following consonant.
• In German dialectology, the Speyer line or Main line (Main River) is an isogloss separating the Central German dialects to the north, which have a stop in words like Appel "apple", from the Upper German dialects to the south, which have an affricate, Apfel.
• What are word-initial affricate consonants (z and pf) in standard German tend to be fricative in Missingsch; e.
• It differs from a true labiodental affricate in that it starts out bilabial but then the lower lip retracts slightly for the frication.
• This sound is somewhat rare; Dahalo has both a palatal lateral fricative and an affricate; Hadza has a series of palatal lateral affricates.
• The voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
• is a trilled affricate made up of a bilabial trill preceded by a dental stop, and is only reported from four other languages.
• The palato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
• The voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
• T-cedilla (majuscule: Ţ, minuscule: ţ) is a letter which is part of the Gagauz alphabet, used to represent the sound , the voiceless alveolar affricate (like ts in bolts, or like the letter C in Slavic languages).
• The alveolar affricate has a marginal phonological status and is found in some interjections (such as teʼcu! "what a mess!"), loanwords and non-finite verbal forms with the gerund prefix cese- (Tsukida 2005: 292, 297).

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